Dialogue

For use in literature, see Dialogue in writing. For other uses, see Dialogue (disambiguation).
A conversation amongst participants in a 1972 cross-cultural youth convention

Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English)[1] is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is chiefly associated in the West with the Socratic dialogue as developed by Plato, but antecedents are also found in other traditions including Indian literature.[2]

  1. ^
    • "dialogue (n)". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
    • "dialog (n & v)". American Heritage Dictionary. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  2. ^ Nakamura, Hajime (1964). The Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples. University of Hawaii Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0824800789.